Originally Posted by
TheKillerPenguin
Yesterday I bested my all time 30min power while pacing for 45min (by 1 watt). Up 8 watts and down a bunch of RPE from when I last did this during finals in December. No substitute for volume I guess.
One thing I think I've learned from training all these years is that training load is trumps everything else. If load goes up, I get fitter. Intensity sort of takes care of itself on the macro level, and I think that relationship of higher load = more fit would only break down if I was too extreme in either low intensity or high.